The State Science and Technology Commission, State Economic and Trade Commission, and State Planning Commission of China have jointly worked out the Program for the Development of Chinese New and Renewable Energy rece...The State Science and Technology Commission, State Economic and Trade Commission, and State Planning Commission of China have jointly worked out the Program for the Development of Chinese New and Renewable Energy recently.展开更多
The Proposal for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for China＇s Economic and Social Development （2011-2015）（herein after referred to as the ＂Proposed Plan＂ for short） provides a complete range of guidelines for China＇...The Proposal for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for China＇s Economic and Social Development （2011-2015）（herein after referred to as the ＂Proposed Plan＂ for short） provides a complete range of guidelines for China＇s im-mediate and long-term development.展开更多
Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working ... Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume. ……展开更多
Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conf...Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume.展开更多
This paper gives a new dual problem for nondifferentiable convex programming and provesthe properties of weak duality and strong duality and offers a necessary and sufficient condition ofstrong duality.
The main difficulties encountered in the successive quadratic programming methods are.the choice of penalty parameter, the choice of steplenth, and the Maratos effect. An algorithmwithout penalty parameters is present...The main difficulties encountered in the successive quadratic programming methods are.the choice of penalty parameter, the choice of steplenth, and the Maratos effect. An algorithmwithout penalty parameters is presented in this paper. The choice of steplength parameters isbased on the method of trust region. Global convergence and local superlinear convergence areproved under suitable assumption.展开更多
The problem of solving a linear programming is converted into that of solving an uncon-strained maximization problem in which the objective function is concave. Two algorithms areproposed. These two algorithms have ve...The problem of solving a linear programming is converted into that of solving an uncon-strained maximization problem in which the objective function is concave. Two algorithms areproposed. These two algorithms have very simple structure and can be implemented easily. Forany given precision, the algorithms will terminate in a finite number of steps.展开更多
Background: In 2012, U.S. health care providers wrote more than 259 million opioid prescriptions, which is twice as many as in 1998. Approximately 1 in 10 women report the use of opioids for pain management during pre...Background: In 2012, U.S. health care providers wrote more than 259 million opioid prescriptions, which is twice as many as in 1998. Approximately 1 in 10 women report the use of opioids for pain management during pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that between 2008 and 2012, 39% of reproductive-aged women on Medicaid had filled a prescription for opioid medication each year, as did 28% of women with private insurance. The opioid epidemic extends to the state of New Jersey (NJ);however, limited data is available regarding opioid prescriptions among Medicaid and private insurance patients within the state. Objective: Evaluate opioid prescriptions filled in reproductive-aged women presenting in labor at a community teaching hospital in suburban New Jersey. Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study using data obtained from patient records and the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program (NJPMP) database. We enrolled 200 patients that were admitted in labor between May 2015 and May 2016. Data was collected from reproductive-aged women during the one year preceding labor admission. We compared our findings to national data reported by the CDC using Chi-square analysis. Maternal demographic data were extracted from patient records and included age, insurance status (private insurance, Medicaid, and no insurance), race, and ethnicity. The primary outcome was opioid prescriptions filled. Results: Of the 200 women admitted in labor, 129 had private insurance, 63 had Medicaid, and 8 had no insurance. We found that 5.4% (7/129) of patients with private insurance, 4.8% (3/63) of patients with Medicaid, and 12.5% (1/8) of patients with no insurance filled opioid prescriptions. Overall, 5.5% (11/200) of women filled opioid prescriptions during the study period. Opioid prescriptions confirmed via NJPMP were significantly lower than rates reported by the CDC in Medicaid (4.8% vs. 41.4%, p-value 0.001) and private insurance (5.4% vs. 29.1%, p-value < 0.001) patients, respectively. Conclusion: Rates of opioid prescriptions filled were lower among our suburban cohort of women in New Jersey than national rates reported by the CDC. We did not confirm that patients with Medicaid filled more prescriptions than patients with private insurance. These discrepancies raise the question of whether a federal prescription monitoring program would better capture data than state-wide programs. Further research is needed to ensure that prescription monitoring programs are actually capturing accurate data.展开更多
Professor Teng Bingsheng has taken the helm of the Cheung Kong MBA program and the new part-time Finance MBA program as the newly appointed associate dean. The Finance MBA is due to commence with the first intake enro...Professor Teng Bingsheng has taken the helm of the Cheung Kong MBA program and the new part-time Finance MBA program as the newly appointed associate dean. The Finance MBA is due to commence with the first intake enrollment this October, while the full-time 12-month MBA program is currently in the process of being expanded to become a dual-campus program with modules in both Shanghai and Beijing.展开更多
文摘The State Science and Technology Commission, State Economic and Trade Commission, and State Planning Commission of China have jointly worked out the Program for the Development of Chinese New and Renewable Energy recently.
文摘The Proposal for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for China＇s Economic and Social Development （2011-2015）（herein after referred to as the ＂Proposed Plan＂ for short） provides a complete range of guidelines for China＇s im-mediate and long-term development.
文摘 Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume. ……
文摘Editor's note: We are sorry that because of the over-crowded space in our last issue, we are delayed in presenting the second part of the report delivered by the CAS President Lu Yongxiang at the 2002 working conference of CAS. The report appears in two installments in this and the 1st issue of this volume.
文摘This paper gives a new dual problem for nondifferentiable convex programming and provesthe properties of weak duality and strong duality and offers a necessary and sufficient condition ofstrong duality.
文摘The main difficulties encountered in the successive quadratic programming methods are.the choice of penalty parameter, the choice of steplenth, and the Maratos effect. An algorithmwithout penalty parameters is presented in this paper. The choice of steplength parameters isbased on the method of trust region. Global convergence and local superlinear convergence areproved under suitable assumption.
文摘The problem of solving a linear programming is converted into that of solving an uncon-strained maximization problem in which the objective function is concave. Two algorithms areproposed. These two algorithms have very simple structure and can be implemented easily. Forany given precision, the algorithms will terminate in a finite number of steps.
文摘Background: In 2012, U.S. health care providers wrote more than 259 million opioid prescriptions, which is twice as many as in 1998. Approximately 1 in 10 women report the use of opioids for pain management during pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that between 2008 and 2012, 39% of reproductive-aged women on Medicaid had filled a prescription for opioid medication each year, as did 28% of women with private insurance. The opioid epidemic extends to the state of New Jersey (NJ);however, limited data is available regarding opioid prescriptions among Medicaid and private insurance patients within the state. Objective: Evaluate opioid prescriptions filled in reproductive-aged women presenting in labor at a community teaching hospital in suburban New Jersey. Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study using data obtained from patient records and the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program (NJPMP) database. We enrolled 200 patients that were admitted in labor between May 2015 and May 2016. Data was collected from reproductive-aged women during the one year preceding labor admission. We compared our findings to national data reported by the CDC using Chi-square analysis. Maternal demographic data were extracted from patient records and included age, insurance status (private insurance, Medicaid, and no insurance), race, and ethnicity. The primary outcome was opioid prescriptions filled. Results: Of the 200 women admitted in labor, 129 had private insurance, 63 had Medicaid, and 8 had no insurance. We found that 5.4% (7/129) of patients with private insurance, 4.8% (3/63) of patients with Medicaid, and 12.5% (1/8) of patients with no insurance filled opioid prescriptions. Overall, 5.5% (11/200) of women filled opioid prescriptions during the study period. Opioid prescriptions confirmed via NJPMP were significantly lower than rates reported by the CDC in Medicaid (4.8% vs. 41.4%, p-value 0.001) and private insurance (5.4% vs. 29.1%, p-value < 0.001) patients, respectively. Conclusion: Rates of opioid prescriptions filled were lower among our suburban cohort of women in New Jersey than national rates reported by the CDC. We did not confirm that patients with Medicaid filled more prescriptions than patients with private insurance. These discrepancies raise the question of whether a federal prescription monitoring program would better capture data than state-wide programs. Further research is needed to ensure that prescription monitoring programs are actually capturing accurate data.
文摘Professor Teng Bingsheng has taken the helm of the Cheung Kong MBA program and the new part-time Finance MBA program as the newly appointed associate dean. The Finance MBA is due to commence with the first intake enrollment this October, while the full-time 12-month MBA program is currently in the process of being expanded to become a dual-campus program with modules in both Shanghai and Beijing.
